Hi everyone,
I'm attaching two documents to this post:
1. Vocab List #5
2. The Bastard of Istanbul Writing Assignment
Let me know if the links do not work.
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
BoI Thought Provoker #2
To all those who are hungry...
In preparation for your assignment due on Monday (see the syllabus), your thought provoker for tonight asks you to do a little preliminary research into the food of the novel.
Why are we focusing on food?
First of all, because food forms an important motif in the novel: from the chapter titles to the processed American foods in the Arizona supermarket to the pretentious haute cuisine that Armanoush eats on her date to the variety of ethnic delicacies on the tables of both the Kazanci and Tchakhmakhchian households, Elif Shafak ensures that the flavors of these worlds are embedded within the prose of her work.
Second of all, because later in the year, you're going to run Middle Eastern themed cafes where your intricate knowledge of Turkish and other Mediterranean cuisine will come in handy.
Third of all, because it gives you a chance to collaborate in a completely different context and with a completely different purpose.
And finally, because eating brings people together...as you have already seen in the novel. And we're going to begin class on Monday with a FEAST! Prepared by you!
SO...tonight, your thought provoker is as follows: find at least TWO (if not more) important dishes that Shafak describes in her novel; research the dish, and find a recipe for it online. Post the recipe in the comments section below.
Make sure that you read the posts that already exist, so that we have as much variety in our "menu" as possible. Also, try to find dishes that are radically different from one another: a sweet dish and a salty one; a meat dish and a vegetarian one; a Turkish dish and an Armenian one; etc.
Good luck!
In preparation for your assignment due on Monday (see the syllabus), your thought provoker for tonight asks you to do a little preliminary research into the food of the novel.
Why are we focusing on food?
First of all, because food forms an important motif in the novel: from the chapter titles to the processed American foods in the Arizona supermarket to the pretentious haute cuisine that Armanoush eats on her date to the variety of ethnic delicacies on the tables of both the Kazanci and Tchakhmakhchian households, Elif Shafak ensures that the flavors of these worlds are embedded within the prose of her work.
Second of all, because later in the year, you're going to run Middle Eastern themed cafes where your intricate knowledge of Turkish and other Mediterranean cuisine will come in handy.
Third of all, because it gives you a chance to collaborate in a completely different context and with a completely different purpose.
And finally, because eating brings people together...as you have already seen in the novel. And we're going to begin class on Monday with a FEAST! Prepared by you!
SO...tonight, your thought provoker is as follows: find at least TWO (if not more) important dishes that Shafak describes in her novel; research the dish, and find a recipe for it online. Post the recipe in the comments section below.
Make sure that you read the posts that already exist, so that we have as much variety in our "menu" as possible. Also, try to find dishes that are radically different from one another: a sweet dish and a salty one; a meat dish and a vegetarian one; a Turkish dish and an Armenian one; etc.
Good luck!
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
BoI Thought Provoker #1
Hi all!
It's time to start thinking about the CULTURAL ALLUSIONS that Shafak uses all throughout her novel. Your job is to do a little preliminary research on five of them and offer a quick introductory explanation of who/what they are. You can also offer some brief thoughts about why Shafak might have alluded to each in the first place...as in, why THIS novel? Why THIS song?
By cultural allusions, I mean artists/paintings, authors/books, singers/songs, philosophers, etc that Shafak refers to in the novel. If there's a link you can post inside your response (or a youtube video), all the better!
Please make sure to look at the responses that have appeared already so that you don't overlap too much or at all.
Have fun!
Learn something!
(And here's something to get you started...)
It's time to start thinking about the CULTURAL ALLUSIONS that Shafak uses all throughout her novel. Your job is to do a little preliminary research on five of them and offer a quick introductory explanation of who/what they are. You can also offer some brief thoughts about why Shafak might have alluded to each in the first place...as in, why THIS novel? Why THIS song?
By cultural allusions, I mean artists/paintings, authors/books, singers/songs, philosophers, etc that Shafak refers to in the novel. If there's a link you can post inside your response (or a youtube video), all the better!
Please make sure to look at the responses that have appeared already so that you don't overlap too much or at all.
Have fun!
Learn something!
(And here's something to get you started...)
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